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dc.contributor.authorAllan, JI
dc.contributor.authorAuld, G
dc.contributor.authorCadman, T
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, H
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-10T07:40:26Z
dc.date.available2022-01-10T07:40:26Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1758-5880
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1758-5899.13036
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/411343
dc.description.abstractConservation biologists and environmental economists popularized ecosystem services as a governance concept in the 1990s. The concept, it was hoped, would valorize biodiversity conservation to place it on a level playing field with the economic concerns of the world's finance ministers and private sector. Has this valorization promise been realized within the international community? We examine this question by interrogating a constructed dataset of 272 international activities undertaken by international actors (e.g. non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations, and other international organizations) that invoke or use the ecosystem services concept. We find that ecosystem service practice is dominated by capacity-building not the valuation of nature. This suggests that the international community is not extensively using the concept to value nature in order to inform governance decisions. We posit that budget and management pressures facing international organizations along with priorities of countries help explain the dominance of capacity-building. But we also suggest that a deeper understanding of the concept of ecosystem services – particularly its implied programme of action – is necessary to account for its unfulfilled promise to date. We close with implications from this study for broader work on global environmental governance.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Policy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleComparative Fortunes of Ecosystem Services as an International Governance Concept
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAllan, JI; Auld, G; Cadman, T; Stevenson, H, Comparative Fortunes of Ecosystem Services as an International Governance Concept, Global Policy, 2021
dc.date.updated2022-01-10T06:52:53Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCadman, Timothy M.


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